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COBOL Compilers

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Automatic internal conversion of indices to index

When a data-item declared in Working-Storage or Local-Storage is used to access the elements of a table (OCCURS), and is not used to access other tables (data-item dedicated to a table), this data-item could be automatically converted to INDEX for...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

DB2 and CICS pre- compilers do not recognize Cobol V5 floating comments

COBOL V5 allows use of "floating comment", sequence space + " * >" followed by a free text. DB2 pre- compiler (tested with DB2 V10) and CICS pre-compiler (tested with CICS TS 4.2) do not recognize this Cobol V5 syntax comment, and the presence ...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Cobol V5 - STGOPT does'nt optimize SQL--* variables created par SQL option

Cobol V5 compiler, as Cobol V4 compiler, can process DB2 SQL commands through the integrated coprocessor (instead of a pre- compilation) . When the SQL compiler option is enabled, the "automatic" variables SQL - * are created. We identified a diff...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 11 Is a defect

ECOBOL v5.1 - CEE0813S Insufficient storage.

I created Service Request 89561,7TD,000 to resolve a CEE0813S Insufficient storage issue a user was having. As per the SR, a 'quick fix' should make the August release but may not resolve the issue. I was advised to submit an RFE quoting RTC 11416...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Abbreviation of the directive >> IF constant-conditional-expression

The ">>IF constant-conditional-expression" directive could support a simplified expression: >>IF compilation-variable-name - this expression would be true if: (compile-variable-name is defined) AND (its value is equal to B'1', or an in...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - New compilation directive ">>RULES(ON|OFF)"

In addition to RFE 120105 (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=120105), I suggest implementing a ">>RULES(ON|OFF)" compilation directive to enable / disable controls related to the "RULES ()" compilation ...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Value of Cobol variables may be incorrectly reported

Enhance the DWARF data produced by the COBOL compiler such that CEEDUMP can correctly identify that a variables value is being held in a register rather than in storage at the time of an abend.
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

UNREFERENCED/UNUSED Listing Sections

It would be helpful for code cleanup if there were sections in the listing that detailed unreferenced variables and unused subroutines, similar to the way the PL/I compiler shows them in the listing.
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

NEXT SENTENCE warnings

Add optional warnings when NEXT SENTENCE is used and might behave in an unexpected manner
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

Enhancement of the OCCURS DEPENDING ON clause

Enhancemen request for COBOLWhat: Variable-length tables, the Enhancement of OCCURS DEPENDING ON clause In a hybrid application architecture where the client resides on a distrubited platform (Java, .Net, iOS, Android etc) there is a need for Main...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

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